20 February, 2018

It’s been a while since we had anything to report. In fact, there’s been no official communication of note about Filly Funtasia since BRB disavowed the show in late 2016 and no official communication of note about Filly in general since Dracco signed a deal with Goliath in spring 2017. Accordingly, we haven't posted any articles at all on Funtasia Daily for about half a year as there hasn't been much to report on. Considering all of this, it would not be too unreasonable to think Filly Funtasia has simply been abandoned and forgotten by everyone.

But it has not. The founders of Dracco, brothers Henrik and Jacob Andersen, have conducted an interview with Danish business website Finans.dk where they reveal, among other things, that Filly Funtasia has a new projected release date - 2019.

The information is divided into two rather long articles.
Both of them are in Danish and one of them is locked behind a paywall,
so this article will contain a summary of the information in both of
them along with background information for context.

24 October, 2017

It's October the 24th (well, at least in my time zone), which means it's time for another Funtasia Daily anniversary! When starting this website in late 2013, nine days after the release of the first Filly Funtasia trailer, I wasn't completely sure what to expect. But I highly doubt that I thought for a second that I would still be updating it four years later even though the show was still nowhere in sight.

25 September, 2017

Remember that logo with the happy little guy that was one of several logos featured in Filly Funtasia promos 1, 3 and 4?

Unfortunately, it seems the company behind it is now defunct. Screen21 was an animation studio based in Barcelona which worked on BRB's various 3DCGI projects. The corporate structure of the companies that have worked on Filly Funtasia is a bit hard to fully comprehend, but from what I understand it, Screen21 was a subsidiary of BRB Internacional.

29 August, 2017

News about Filly Funtasia has been extremely scarce for the last year, ever since BRB seemingly disavowed the franchise. Accordingly, Funtasia Daily has also been very quiet during this time period, since there has been very little to report on related to Filly Funtasia. That does not mean that we've been doing nothing, however. We have been reaching out to people who have been involved in the production of the show in various capacities, and a source speaking on the condition of anonymity has now confirmed to us what I think we all already suspected: BRB is no longer involved in Filly or Filly Funtasia.

So, is that it? Is Filly Funtasia as dead as a Valve franchise? No, not necessarily. Because while the schism between BRB (the company formerly producing Filly Funtasia) and Dracco (the owner of the Filly IP) seems to be final, there is also some indication that Dracco is at the very least intending to restart production of the show, if that has not already happened.

12 August, 2017

Today, we have three previously unseen pieces of concept art to show you! Although this concept art hasn't been seen publicly before, it was produced a few years ago and is therefore not proof that production of Filly Funtasia is still ongoing. However, it's still a new glimpse into the design of the show.

Goliath will not only manufacture Filly toys, but also provide marketing for them within Germany. The articles also mention that they will not only provide marketing (and toy manufacturing, presumably) for the existing Filly Royale line, but also for two new toylines: Ballerina and Wedding. While we already know that there's a toy line called Ballerina on its way, Wedding being referred to as a new toyline is a bit of a surprise, because there's already a 2014 toy line called Filly Wedding. Perhaps they mean that another expansion to it is coming - maybe featuring couples drawn from the two new toylines, Stars and Royale, that have been introduced since the release of its last expansion in late 2014, Filly Dream Wedding.

While there is no mention of Filly Funtasia in the articles, this is at least a positive sign for the Filly toy line. Hopefully, we'll soon also get a sign of what has become of Filly Funtasia.

09 March, 2017

Hello! Discord is all the rage nowadays, and we've decided to create a Discord server for Funtasia Daily. It's basically a chat room that you can access either online or through a client. Feel free to drop in and have a chat about Filly stuff!

07 February, 2017

For a long time, Dracco has been running a website on filly.com (and on myfilly.com) where you could create your own Filly and accessorise it with items bought with horseshoes that you could earn on the site or get by inputting a code that you received when buying toys. Well, a few days ago, it started redirecting to the Filly Stars toy site. (why that and not Royale?) We reached out to Dracco to find out what had happened, and received this reply:

It seems it will be replaced with a brand new website! Once it arrives, we'll certainly be writing more about it.

31 December, 2016

Hello everyone! The end of 2016 is upon us, and what better way to round off such a year than by shutting something down? Yes, the Wiki that I have been hosting on fillywiki.com for some time will be shut down at the end of January, one month from now. Intended to replace a Wiki hosted by Wikia in order to provide a more certain admin structure and better possibilities for customization, it never became more popular than its more accessible and established counterpart and lately has stagnated completely.

21 December, 2016

Throughout this year, Dracco have released around four dozen applications on the Google Play store. Most of them are small collections of 5x5 slide puzzles related to different Dracco brands. In November and December, however, Dracco released five slide puzzle apps themed after Filly and Filly Funtasia.

A typical screencap of a Slide Puzzle app

While they're nowhere near as spanning as Filly Witchy's Witchy Adventure or even Filly Cupcake Shop, the puzzle images contained within them uncover slightly more information about the upcoming show. In this article, we will take a look at the five apps one by one and discuss the images.

27 November, 2016

Finally a video with some new Filly Funtasia material! Well, it's not really that new since it was uploaded almost half a year ago, and it's not a promo - it's an interview with Toni García, creative director of Screen21. However, you can see some never before seen Filly Funtasia material in the background of the interview. Let's take a look at it!